Why was the default file (i.e. .tintinrc) functionality removed from tintin++ but similar functionality remains in WinTin++? The last mention of either .tintinrc or tt.conf in the development history is about nine years ago and there is no indication of when it was removed. The only minor clue is May 2005 (v 1.94.2) states:

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tintin.h Removed unused macro DEFAULT_FILE_DIR

It appears to be fairly simple to hack the default file function back into tt++:

In a relatively brief examination of the code, it appears that the current functionality (i.e. tt++ run.tin) is a shorthand version of tt++ -r run.tin. The attached diff would retain the existing behavior (although I'm not convinced that the shorthand version bit is desirable, it is what people are used to.) It introduces a new option (-n) which tells tt++ not to load ~/.tintinrc and also does not load .tintinrc on an explicit -r <file>

Back in the days there was a special parser that read .tintinrc which had its own special format, when I added #config I got rid of that code. All things considered I'm not a big fan of the idea as I'm trying to keep bloat to a minimum.

If people want a default file one option is to edit .bash_profile or .bashrc and add: